North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan has led the first Liberal Democrat Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons for 15 years.

The debate focused on primary care issues, including GPs, NHS dentists, and pharmacies.

This follows the Liberal Democrats' record-breaking results in the recent General Election, which restored them as the largest opposition third party.

Ms Morgan was re-elected as the first non-Conservative to ever win North Shropshire in a General Election, with a majority of 15,311.

The MP raised concerns about the ‘8am calling frenzy’ for GP appointments and the shortage of NHS dental treatment, describing these as examples of a ‘closed door’ to patients seeking care.

This forms part of her ongoing campaign to improve services in North Shropshire, which she claims has been severely let down on health and care issues.

Ms Morgan said: "Primary care is the front door to the health service – but for too many at the moment, that door is closed.

"Whether you're waking up and dealing with the 8am calling frenzy to get a GP appointment, frantically ringing every dental practice in your area for an NHS dentist, or turning up at your local pharmacy to pick up a prescription for a loved one or yourself and finding it unexpectedly closed or the medicine out of stock.

"Primary care is in terrible trouble and it needs fixing urgently."

She highlighted the case of a Market Drayton resident unable to find an NHS dentist.

She said: "In my constituency, Ron Kelley is 62, he is disabled and lives in Market Drayton.

"It is not easy to catch a bus from Market Drayton.

"He has been trying since 2019 to find an NHS dentist in Market Drayton, and still hasn’t been able to find one.

"My caseworkers have rung every NHS dentist in the constituency, and none of them are taking on new patients – even if he was able to use a bus, he wouldn’t be able to find an NHS dentist in North Shropshire at the moment."